Ach Ich Fuhl's - Wolfgang Mozart

A piece which I have been in the process of learning is 'Ach ich fuhl's' from Mozart's opera '

Die Zauberflöte'. It's been one of the hardest aria's I've had to learn to date which I didn't expect it to be. I think it has been so hard for me to learn due to of the lack of support from the accompaniment and also the time signature of the piece. The aria is written with a 6/8 time signature which I really struggled to keep in time with. I think I struggled learning piece as the accompaniment had a vamp style element which completely separated the accompaniment from the vocal line, to me the accompaniment and vocal line could of been two separate pieces because they felt so distant. To resolve this I wrote all the counts in over my score as well as recording my self counting 1-6 for the entire piece. To learn the piece I sang along to my recorded voice counting which kept me in time and made me aware of where I was in the score, it also aloud me to see what was being played under my voice and what to expect to hear when I'm singing.